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you saw what happened to a highly respected lawyer today, bob castello. i have never seen anything like that. i respect it. remember this. we can't put into next year witness. we are not allowed to put in an expert witness. nobody has heard of it before. election law is very complicated actually. we are not allowed to have an expert witness, because the judge wants to rule on it. he said we don't need an expert witness, i guess. he said he will rule on end. he needs help. on a very complex -- we did nothing wrong. i will tell you that right now. he doesn't want him to testify. that is because he is going to say we did nothing wrong. i can say that one, again, because i have a gag order. he goes through a whole big thing on witness today. i can't talk about it. the exact same thing. he is a very good lawyer. cnn commentator. it's not only their credibility, it is also those whose alvin bragg's office -- how did they not get this out ahead of time? that is what everyone is asking now. how could they put something like this out? he goes on to things that i'm
you saw what happened to a highly respected lawyer today, bob castello. i have never seen anything like that. i respect it. remember this. we can't put into next year witness. we are not allowed to put in an expert witness. nobody has heard of it before. election law is very complicated actually. we are not allowed to have an expert witness, because the judge wants to rule on it. he said we don't need an expert witness, i guess. he said he will rule on end. he needs help. on a very complex --...
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so let's run a little bit of what robert costello, what bob castello told the committee yesterday. under oath what he tries to do is he picks out cherry picks, shirt and emails or text messages and tries to make them look like something else. the story he told yesterday was that rudy giuliani and i wish somehow conspiring to try and keep him quiet to try and keep him from flipping that's the term we use in the trade for cooperating that's ridiculous and presumably, bob costello also has emails and texts to back this up. >> mr. brennan, let me start with you. if you were representing trump would you call castello as a witness absolutely. >> why the testimony he just gave apparently, if i understood it right, this was just in the last 24 hours he went in yesterday. >> that was in front of a paddle and said, almost everything cohen said under oath in the current trial about me is lie. >> i mean i think mr. blanche has done a fabulous job at showing empirical data of his lies. >> this is lying to this jury. forget the federal judge. he lied to the irs the bankruptcy court. congress. he
so let's run a little bit of what robert costello, what bob castello told the committee yesterday. under oath what he tries to do is he picks out cherry picks, shirt and emails or text messages and tries to make them look like something else. the story he told yesterday was that rudy giuliani and i wish somehow conspiring to try and keep him quiet to try and keep him from flipping that's the term we use in the trade for cooperating that's ridiculous and presumably, bob costello also has emails...
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citroen, and then they brought bob castello in and bob castello sat with michael cohen extensively to try and convince him to cooperate against donald trump and mco. calm, didn't have anything now, later, and this is what he was talking about there when michael cohen did decide to try and cooperate with the southern district of new york. he tried to claim the bob gastel them pretty giuliani were dangling a pardon to try to get them to stay the course they opened an investigation, a criminal investigation into bob gastel and rudy giuliani for witness tampering. they brought bob castello in and what he talked about was he went in and he brought all the emails and tax and he showed them all of that. and that's when the us attorney's office said, okay, you guys didn't dangle a pardon? michael cohen was begging for a pardon. and that's when they decided not to give them a cooperation agreement and that's when the us attorney's office walk away from an entirely and all of those emails that he has showing the lie he told to the us serious office, which is identical to the lie. he said on dir
citroen, and then they brought bob castello in and bob castello sat with michael cohen extensively to try and convince him to cooperate against donald trump and mco. calm, didn't have anything now, later, and this is what he was talking about there when michael cohen did decide to try and cooperate with the southern district of new york. he tried to claim the bob gastel them pretty giuliani were dangling a pardon to try to get them to stay the course they opened an investigation, a criminal...
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so i think if you're the defense, you're moving on to bob castello ville, you're not worried about shiller because like cohen has just he's a dream come true for cross-examination . there are so many things to attack them on. bias, convictions for lying, lying to congress, lying about his federal play. it never ends so yeah, they've got a great gotcha moment on this, but i wouldn't even overplay that from the defense you've scored the point. it's the government's burden if they don't. and schiller would probably end up being a friendly cross. it becomes in for the government. i think they rest. and by the way, i think they're resting here because they lost the ability to call karen mcdougal with the opinion that came out on the weinstein in case i think they realize they're in treacherous territory with this other offense kind of conduct yeah. >> listen, we'll see i mean, this was a huge moment, i think for donald trump. >> he probably i'm sure was very helpful to his attorneys because he knows michael cohen i'm very well. they work attached at the hip, folks who cover donald trump always
so i think if you're the defense, you're moving on to bob castello ville, you're not worried about shiller because like cohen has just he's a dream come true for cross-examination . there are so many things to attack them on. bias, convictions for lying, lying to congress, lying about his federal play. it never ends so yeah, they've got a great gotcha moment on this, but i wouldn't even overplay that from the defense you've scored the point. it's the government's burden if they don't. and...
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that i think that the primary witness that they should be calling and i expect that they will call as bob castello about kusto represented michael cohen and he testified this morning and the judiciary committee that a lot of the things that michael cohen said this week, we're lives and he has a lot of the emails from that time, things that he presented to the attorney's office for the southern district of new york it convinced the us attorney's office that he was unworthy of belief and to drop them as a cooperator. >> so i think that he's a very powerful witness for them to potentially bring in to undercut michael cohen beyond that, i know that they've talked about having an expert come in. there's an issue about yeah, this is business records and yet we're talking about his personal checkbook. so they may try to bring in some evidence to separate this out from the business records but i know the big question for everybody is whether donald trump will testify and i would predict know you know, i think there's also another big question here which is the person who's not there, which is all
that i think that the primary witness that they should be calling and i expect that they will call as bob castello about kusto represented michael cohen and he testified this morning and the judiciary committee that a lot of the things that michael cohen said this week, we're lives and he has a lot of the emails from that time, things that he presented to the attorney's office for the southern district of new york it convinced the us attorney's office that he was unworthy of belief and to drop...
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that bob will come up with it. i'm not knowledgeable before you, before you go on now, i think people we heard about bob costello, this is not really a household name for a lot of people, for many reasons and all the names people who have been listed who exactly is bob costello and why would it be the case that if he was the attorney of cohen he can talk about them right now. >> he is a new york lawyer for 51 years, no rookie, very street smart, very kind of prototypical new york brash lawyer he and his partner were representing cohen and the substance that really is devastating in terms of rebuttal, potential rebuttal testimony is that cohen was on the hook with the southern district of new york, and this lawyer pushed him saying, if there's something you can do to cooperate if you can give us anything on president trump, i can get you out all your trouble and he's a former sdny prosecutor, so you kinda knows that the terrain and he will say and he said this in front of the hill the other day at the hill that i mu
that bob will come up with it. i'm not knowledgeable before you, before you go on now, i think people we heard about bob costello, this is not really a household name for a lot of people, for many reasons and all the names people who have been listed who exactly is bob costello and why would it be the case that if he was the attorney of cohen he can talk about them right now. >> he is a new york lawyer for 51 years, no rookie, very street smart, very kind of prototypical new york brash...
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this is on a witness that the defense may call attorney bob castello so you guys have worked on this together, i guess, poet first, who is he? and what is he going? why is he here? >> yeah, bob sell it was a long trump ally. he's represented trump allies like rudy giuliani for long in time and for a period who represented michael cohen now wonka stella was the only witness that the trump defense team put before the grand jury in this case last year before trump was indicted, and they put them on to undercut michael cohen's credibility because he will testify casella has testified repeatedly that when he was representing michael cohen, michael cohen repeatedly told him that he had no evidence of criminal conduct by trump. there was nothing he could offer investigators the other instances that would undercut cohen's credibility and a big question so far has been, we'll he testified in this case yesterday. he testified on capitol hill lot of trump allies are very amped up about this appearance. and there were questions about whether that would prompt the trump team to reach out to him.
this is on a witness that the defense may call attorney bob castello so you guys have worked on this together, i guess, poet first, who is he? and what is he going? why is he here? >> yeah, bob sell it was a long trump ally. he's represented trump allies like rudy giuliani for long in time and for a period who represented michael cohen now wonka stella was the only witness that the trump defense team put before the grand jury in this case last year before trump was indicted, and they put...
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but they could put on evidence from bob castello, who is michael cohen's lawyer, who told the fence and grand jury in this case that that michael cohen told a completely different story and that he told going he had every incentive to bury donald. donald trump. now is the time to do it. and it cone said, no, there is nothing gets trump. estella would be a compelling witnesses, a former chief deputy, the criminal division in the southern district of new york cohen waiver privilege with him. so it's going to be very interesting to see how it all plays out. but the cross-examined, the direct and are crews this case, you're right. and even by the way, i still would say that cogent defense theory a smart one in this case, could even eat all that michael cohen has to say, dept, you can be sure he's gonna be as strong as he can. and trying to put it put it to trump in every way he can there is no question that is going to be a very interesting, both legally and somewhat entertaining perspective over the next couple of weeks, i've shown it's been my friend that's always great to see you. >> tha
but they could put on evidence from bob castello, who is michael cohen's lawyer, who told the fence and grand jury in this case that that michael cohen told a completely different story and that he told going he had every incentive to bury donald. donald trump. now is the time to do it. and it cone said, no, there is nothing gets trump. estella would be a compelling witnesses, a former chief deputy, the criminal division in the southern district of new york cohen waiver privilege with him. so...
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castello, who's this attorney that was allied with donald trump and rudy giuliani. we were seeing the emails from bob casella, to michael cohen that we're really notable. i get saying that he could be a back channel basically to donald trump because my friend referring to rudy giuliani, my friends client it's very clear when bomb casella was trying to communicate to michael cohen? >> yeah. stay in the fold, which ultimately didn't happen. and rob kusto, longtime attorney of rudy giuliani, trump, attorney, is just one of these trump-world characters. they just keep showing up in every story and it's just about a year ago right before trump was indicted that is a defense surprised a lot of people buy calling rob costello to try to undercut the credibility of michael cohen because he was testifying about his time representing cohen. and he said that, look, cohen told me that the whole hush money scheme was his idea notably, costello is not being called to testify for the defense castula told me he was quite surprised that he was not being called two once again, under c
castello, who's this attorney that was allied with donald trump and rudy giuliani. we were seeing the emails from bob casella, to michael cohen that we're really notable. i get saying that he could be a back channel basically to donald trump because my friend referring to rudy giuliani, my friends client it's very clear when bomb casella was trying to communicate to michael cohen? >> yeah. stay in the fold, which ultimately didn't happen. and rob kusto, longtime attorney of rudy giuliani,...
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what he did with bob costello. bob costello is muttering, wasn't appropriate either. >> but as far as whether costello was a mistake or not, castello should have been. >> and in some sense, and wall street journal reports, he scored some points. he should have been a dynamite witness is a bright guy, former chief deputy chief of the criminal division, southern district, new york prosecutor, and the question of whether he presented michael cohen or not. i think is answered not just by the email exchange between them but the fed's had michael cohen sign a privilege waiver with bob costello before it got bob costello met with the feds and so on. and what he's said is, i think a key for mike about michael cohen up, wrap it up without talking too much more. that is that he told hold michael cohen at the time his motivation was the greatest at that point to turn over donald trump. if donald trump did anything wrong with respect to the stormy daniels thing. and he said over and over again, michael cohen said to him, bob,
what he did with bob costello. bob costello is muttering, wasn't appropriate either. >> but as far as whether costello was a mistake or not, castello should have been. >> and in some sense, and wall street journal reports, he scored some points. he should have been a dynamite witness is a bright guy, former chief deputy chief of the criminal division, southern district, new york prosecutor, and the question of whether he presented michael cohen or not. i think is answered not just...
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castello said if he's called to testify he thanks will happen tuesday or wednesday. decision was not made on whether or not trump will testify himself. there's no court today because of this. trump posted about his sun bear and untrue social writing going to barron's high school graduation. great student wonderful boy. very exciting. dj t. cohen's testimony will extend to a second week. his prosecutor's star witness and the only 1 directly linking trump to reimbursement scheme to influence the 2016 election. on the stand cohen edmonton to line for congress in 2017 and 2 special counsel prosecutors the next year. he claims he told trump the stormy daniels deal was done on trump's bodyguard's phone but text messages from that time so cohen actually wanted to talk about harassing phone calls he received. you can bet prosecutors will try to address some of the doubts raised during cohen's cross-examination on redirect. but long story short this trial is nearing its end. prone is a prosecution's final witness and the judge told lawyers to be ready for closing arguments on
castello said if he's called to testify he thanks will happen tuesday or wednesday. decision was not made on whether or not trump will testify himself. there's no court today because of this. trump posted about his sun bear and untrue social writing going to barron's high school graduation. great student wonderful boy. very exciting. dj t. cohen's testimony will extend to a second week. his prosecutor's star witness and the only 1 directly linking trump to reimbursement scheme to influence the...
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the problem is that assistant district attorney susan hoffinger, very expertly took castello through his own words in email on cross-examination insinuating that he was attempting to control michael cohen to benefit costello's friend, longtime associate rudy giuliani. and giuliani's client, donald trump, at the expense of cooperating and she used his extremely i thought unsavory words suggesting that the white house was keeping an eye on him. you have friends there, you can rest easy tonight. you are loved it had the aroma of witness interference or possible witness tampering. that's what the prosecution was suggesting. because stela was an unpleasant witness i think the judge was right to chastise him, although the judge should not have cleared the courtroom interesting very interesting. laura, let me get your thoughts because the persecution and correct me if i'm wrong, still hasn't necessarily fully spelled out to the jury the second crime against trump that would make this case a felony if there's one crime, could be a misdemeanor to crimes, potentially a felony. why is that? is
the problem is that assistant district attorney susan hoffinger, very expertly took castello through his own words in email on cross-examination insinuating that he was attempting to control michael cohen to benefit costello's friend, longtime associate rudy giuliani. and giuliani's client, donald trump, at the expense of cooperating and she used his extremely i thought unsavory words suggesting that the white house was keeping an eye on him. you have friends there, you can rest easy tonight....
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she's she's trying to say that bob costello is a lawyer and he has sour grapes. >> yeah. there's a lot that they're trying to put into the record here of what michael cohen may have been like. they're trying to say that, yeah, maybe he wasn't trustworthy when you said that he was saying something different, but jake, step back for a bit. >> this case is flying towards closing argument. >> yeah. the defense has indicated they might have one other person, a campaign finance expert, that they will call, but we may be minutes away from the end of the evidence presentation on both sides. and just from this afternoon, the extent of the defense case has been trying to nullify certain things. michael cohen said the defense presentation has been entirely then if this campaign finance coursework doesn't get called entirely about michael cohen is that enough to make their argument to the jury that trump should be acquitted or to convince one juror potentially to hang or has the prosecution done enough? setting aside michael cohen to prove the case the intent to deceive to break the
she's she's trying to say that bob costello is a lawyer and he has sour grapes. >> yeah. there's a lot that they're trying to put into the record here of what michael cohen may have been like. they're trying to say that, yeah, maybe he wasn't trustworthy when you said that he was saying something different, but jake, step back for a bit. >> this case is flying towards closing argument. >> yeah. the defense has indicated they might have one other person, a campaign finance...
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this is in the limited context of wordy and colon or castello. this is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. i mean, this is painful to listen to if you're looking at the defense perspective. well, bob costello with certainly portraying himself quite differently than these emails suggest he was operating right now. and just to remind everybody at this point in time in 2018, the question is michael collins office has been raided, his personal home has been rated, and the question is, is he going to flip? is going to cooperate with prosecutors and give them information about donald trump and all of a sudden comes this lawyer. bob costello, trying to get according to these emails, trying to get michael cohen as a client suggesting that he has a hookup with rudy giuliani whose client is donald trump, and he can convey things to donald trump that way. now costello explains it. i was encouraging michael cohen to express any of his complaints and he had several so that i could bring the giuliani and get them worked out, whatever they were hoffinger
this is in the limited context of wordy and colon or castello. this is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. i mean, this is painful to listen to if you're looking at the defense perspective. well, bob costello with certainly portraying himself quite differently than these emails suggest he was operating right now. and just to remind everybody at this point in time in 2018, the question is michael collins office has been raided, his personal home has been rated, and the question is, is he...